Eating and body image

Discover tools, apps, and real stories designed to manage eating disorder triggers, build habits, and support your healing journey.

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Tools and apps for managing eating challenges and EDs

Below, you’ll find tools like online learning programs, forums, wellbeing apps, and podcast episodes that can help you wherever you are in your healing journey.

Apps and online programs

Recovery Record ED Management

Recovery Record helps manage EDs, including anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder. It can be used for self-support or in collaboration with your treatment team.

Building Healthy habits

InsideOut Digital Therapies

InsideOut Digital Therapies offers free, evidence-based and self-paced online programs to support people 16+ experiencing challenges with binge eating, body image, or related behaviours.

Cost

Free

Helps with

Binge Eating & Related Challenges

Calm

Calm is a mindfulness, meditation, and music app that can help you improve your wellbeing, boost your mood, manage stress and anxiety, get better sleep, and more.

Smiling Mind is a mindfulness and meditation app that helps kids, teens, and adults improve their wellbeing, build mental fitness, and achieve specific goals.

Real stories

Tanya's Story

In this episode of Lifeline's Holding on to Hope podcast, Tanya shares what it’s like to struggle with anorexia and why empathy, kindness, and compassion have been so important to her survival.

In this episode of Lifeline's Holding on to Hope podcast, Jaz shares how his decision to transition helped him let go of years of body image issues, suicidal thoughts, and fears of not being accepted.

In this episode of Lifeline's Holding on to Hope podcast, Lizzie shares how she was able to hold on to hope after years of struggling with addiction due to being sexually abused as a child.

In this episode of Lifeline's Holding on to Hope podcast, Matt shares his story of holding on to hope through depression, anxiety, and a suicide attempt that left him wheelchair-bound.

Long-term help for eating challenges and EDs

Support services for eating challenges and EDs

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Signs and effects of eating challenges and EDs

Learn to recognise the signs of eating challenges and eating disorders and understand how they can affect your health and wellbeing.

Helps with

Understanding

7 min

Types of eating challenges and EDs

Learn how eating challenges and eating disorders might show up in thoughts, feelings, and patterns.

Helps with

Understanding

5 min

An introduction to meditation

Meditation can cultivate a sense of calm and clarity by focusing your attention and giving you a birds-eye view of the nature of your mind.

Butterfly provides free and confidential support for people affected by eating disorders and body image concerns via phone, online chat, email, and online self-help resources.

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Coping Skills

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